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Todd Ruggere closes out Massachusetts Beer Tour; drinks one beer in each of Massachusetts 351 cities and towns

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Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Brewing Company, raises a glass of Sam Adams to toast Matt Ruggere at his brewery in Jamaica Plain. Ruggere had just completed his quest to drink one beer in each of the state's 351 cities and towns to raise money for the Jimmy Fund.
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Todd Ruggere accomplished his impossible dream - and raised $40,000 for the Children's Cancer Research Center in Boston.

Ruggere, 38, of Grafton, you'll recall, is the man who set out earlier this year with a goal of raising money for pediatric cancer research by drinking one beer in each of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts. When The Republican and Masslive caught up with him in Amherst in April, he had just sat down for his 129th pint.

Pint 351 came on Sept. 16 with a stop at the Boston Brewing Co. in Jamaica Plain.

Boston Brewing, makers of Sam Adams, became the sponsors of the beer tour, and on the final stop, Ruggere was toasted by no less than the company's founder Jim Koch.

Koch toasted Ruggere’s efforts at the Samuel Adams Brewery in Jamaica Plain in front of his family and friends, and presented him with a check to add to his fundraising efforts. As Koch was quoted in the Boston Globe "There are people who run for governor of the state who haven’t been to every town, and he did it for beer,."

Ruggere, on his Mass Beer Tour web page wrote "Sam Adams also donated $5,000 making the total raised $40,000. Thanks to everyone that followed me and Sam Adams for all the support! "